In the 1980s as a freelance choreographer, Carol Brown worked in theatres in Wales and London and on TV. Carol taught movement and dance on the Post Graduate Theatre Studies Course at Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre for 3 years before becoming Dance Animateur for the Swansea Bay Area in South Wales UK. Carol developed that post into a thriving organisation where she led community dance for 30 years, organising thousands of dance activities for education, integration, community engagement and social change. She also set up community dance companies and staged community productions on casts of up to 300.
She has worked in 14 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia Minor and Australia including with street children in Ethiopia. She has organised youth cultural exchanges with partners in Germany, Lithuania, Uganda, South Africa, Spain and Scotland. She was a finalist for Welsh Woman of the Year for her work founding and developing male dance in Wales in the 1980s including the setting up of the first Welsh male dance company, Dynion.
With 30 years’ experience in disability dance she now directs Dragons Heart & Dragons Soul; a company of neuro diverse young adults who dance meaningful full length pieces unaided by volunteers. “The Dragons” have shown their work in Wales, London, Malta and The Netherlands.
Since 2016 Carol has become freelance again, forming and directing a collective of dance artists called Draig Tan Productions (Dragon Fire Productions) who have undertaken projects in Wales, Australia and Malta. Carol has especially enjoyed her work with Canberra Dance Theatre’s GOLD company, with whom 2 works for performance were created, Imperium being the latest.